evanescent

3 definitions found

evanescent - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Evanescent \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of
     evanescere.]
     1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing;
        fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
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              So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these
              particulars.                          --Hawthorne.
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     2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.
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              The difference between right and wrong, in some
              petty cases, is almost evanescent.    --Wollaston.
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evanescent - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  evanescent
      adj 1: tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"

evanescent - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "evanescent":
     atomic, brittle, capricious, changeable, corpuscular, corruptible,
     deciduous, disappearing, dissolving, dying, embryonic, ephemeral,
     evaporating, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night,
     flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, germinal, granular,
     impalpable, imperceptible, impermanent, impetuous, imponderable,
     impulsive, inappreciable, inconstant, indiscernible, infinitesimal,
     insubstantial, intangible, invisible, melting, microcosmic,
     microscopic, molecular, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable,
     nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short-lived, subatomic,
     temporal, temporary, tenuous, thin, transient, transitive,
     transitory, ultramicroscopic, undurable, unenduring, unseeable,
     unstable, vanishing, volatile